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Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Mrs Thatcher has been the subject of both adulation and vilification. In Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy, the leading historian Sir David Cannadine sets Margaret Thatcher in the context of recent British history. With elegance, wit, and historical insight, Cannadine charts Mrs Thatcher's upbringing and influences, her political career and life after politics, the impact of her policies, and her personal reputation and political legacy. The book also features a glossary of key terms, a chronology, a 'dramatis personae' of significant figures of the period, and a guide to further reading. Written by one of our foremost international historians, it is an essential work for anyone interested in the life and work of a toweringEDand often controversialEDfigure in modern British history, as well as students, academics, and researchers in the fields of modern history and politics.

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Condensed biography with excellent analysis... David Cannadine Margaret Thatcher A Life and Legacy (OUP) is just the ticket. * Keith Simpson, Total Politics * This carefully crafted essay is welcome above all because it concisely distils major episodes such as the Big Bang * WM Roger Louis, Times Literary Supplement * The historian is successful in setting the Iron Lady in the broader historical context. * Thompson Chau, Myanmar Times * An elegant, even-handed and economical overview of the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher * Robbie Millen, The Times * This concise book avoids the usual controversies and offers a new analysis of Thatcher's sweeping economic reforms ... artfully concise book * William Davies, The Guardian * This short format, shorn of extraneous detail, makes it somehow easier to take an overview of the Thatcher years. * Roland White, The Sunday Times * a masterpiece of compression * John Campbell, Financial Times *

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Professor Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is one of the world's best-known historians and historical biographers, and an expert on Churchill and political leadership, and was President of the British Academy from 2017 to 2021. The author or editor of thirty books, David Cannadine is also a regular broadcaster on radio and television. His most recent publications include Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 (2018), The Undivided Past (2013), and George V: the Unexpected King (2014), as well as two series of Prime Ministers' Props for BBC Radio 4 (2016 and 2018).

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